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  • Republican Senate candidate Christine O'Donnell addresses supporters after winning the Republican nomination for Senate in Delaware, Tuesday, Sept. 14, 2010, in Dover, Del. O'Donnell upset Rep. Mike Castle.. (AP Photo/Rob Carr)

    EDITORIAL: The Tea Party transformation

    The Tea Party movement continues to baffle the self-styled political experts who dominate media coverage. Candidates once written off as cranks with no chance of winning triumphed in Tuesday's primaries. In particular, the success of principled candidates in Delaware and New York will force establishment types to face an inconvenient Obama-era truth. Liberal ideology has failed, and the public knows it.


  • In this photograph provided by "Fox News Sunday," Rep. Steny H. Hoyer (left), Maryland Democrat, and Rep. John A. Boehner, Ohio Republican, appear on "Fox News Sunday" from the channel's studios in Washington on Sunday. (Associated Press/"Fox News Sunday," Freddie Lee)

    Hoyer, other Dems hint of willingness to extend all tax cuts

    President Obama on Wednesday clobbered Republicans for holding "hostage" tax cuts for 98 percent of Americans just hours after a top House Democrat, House Majority Leader Steny H. Hoyer, signaled a willingness to compromise on an issue that has become the ultimate political football ahead of November's elections.


  • Republican Senate candidate Christine O'Donnell addresses supporters Tuesday after winning the Republican nomination for Senate in Delaware in Dover, Del. O'Donnell upset Rep. Mike Castle. (Associated Press)

    'Tea party' nominees shake Hill status quo

    Whatever the fate of the slate of "tea party" candidates running in November, conservatives say this year's primary season already has changed the Republican Party for the better.


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Delaware Republican Senate candidate Christine O'Donnell talks with family members in between television interviews Wednesday in Dover. Ms. O'Donnell defeated Rep. Michael N. Castle in Tuesday's primary. Mr. Castle said through a spokeswoman that he does not intend to support Ms. O'Donnell in the general election.

    Reluctant GOP sits down for 'tea party'

    As the electoral fog lifted after this week's primaries, the Republican Party on Wednesday began the awkward task of reaching out to "tea party"-backed winners they previously shunned.


  • 'Dysfunctional' N.Y. Democrats ousted

    The rogues at the heart of two embarrassing years of corruption accusations, partisan gridlock and dirty politics in the New York state Senate were forcefully ejected by voters Tuesday, leaving in tatters the web of political alliances that had long insulated the two Democrats.


  • Political Scene

    White House sends spending wish list


  • Harry Reid

    Reid citizenship plan called an election ploy

    Republicans were quick to dismiss the Senate majority leader's plan to grant citizenship to some illegal immigrants who came to the United States when they were children as a political ploy aimed at wooing voters and pro-illegal-immigrant groups before the November election.


  • Illustration: Sore GOP by Alexander Hunter for The Washington Times

    MORRISSEY: Sore loser party

    The primary process exists in American politics as a mechanism in which members of a party can hold its incumbents accountable, as well as allow voters to determine the candidate they feel best fits their views, goals and mood in a general election. Both parties support this process rhetorically, cheering on a good debate and then demanding unity behind the winner at the end - which has traditionally been either an incumbent or a favorite of the party establishment.


  • Goodwin Liu, 39, is President Obama's nominee for the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco. (Associated Press)

    EDITORIAL: GOP Senate needed to block bad judges

    President Obama sent another reminder on Monday about the importance of this fall's Senate races by resubmitting five judicial nominations so extreme as to be alien to the American experience.


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